#PumpUpThaVolume: December 22, 2017
Media Monarchy plays Morrissey, Ben Miller Band, Sloan and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for December 22, 2017. ♬
Media Monarchy plays Morrissey, Ben Miller Band, Sloan and more on #PumpUpThaVolume for December 22, 2017. ♬
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By Dan Glazebrook | Middle East Eye | December 19, 2017 Presenting themselves as shocked bystanders to the growing famine in Yemen, the US and UK are in fact prime movers in a new strategy that will massively escalate it. The protagonists of the war on Yemen – the US, UK, Saudi Arabia and the […]
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Talk about Life imitating Art.
The Strangelovian palaver of Russia-gate is embraced by many liberals as some totem to ward off the vile Donald Trump, but this dishonest process only furthers the cause of American Empire and risks global destruction, says poet Phil Rockstroh. By…Read more →
The principle of every person having equal access to the Internet represented a strong pillar of modern democracy — and its removal represents another victory for profit-dominated plutocracy, as Dennis J Bernstein explains. By Dennis J Bernstein Despite its…Read more →
Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with off-colour British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.
Downing Street let its pug off the leash this week, allowing it to board a plane to Moscow.
It was the first time a UK Foreign Secretary has set foot in Russia there since William Hague went five years ago. Many had high hopes that Boris Johnson would be able to string consecutive sentences together without mumbling an incoherent quip or insult, but alas their hopes were dashed:
December 23, 2017 (Tony Cartalucci - NEO) - Years ago, those confronting and questioning the Western media's "pro-democracy" narrative regarding Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, her National League for Democracy (NLD) political party and her supporters including saffron-clad supposed "Buddhist monks," were ridiculed and dismissed.Wa
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Sponsored news, #SheKnew/#MeToo and a Christmas "Fairytale" + this day in history w/the Shoe Bomber attack and our song of the year by Alex Lahey on your Morning Monarchy for December 22, 2017.
By Dr Daud Abdullah | MEMO | December 22, 2017 Not for the first time, the free world has stood up for truth and justice in Palestine. The General Assembly’s vote against President Trump’s decision on Jerusalem was a victory for the rule of law over the law of the jungle. It now leaves both […]
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Privacy: In the analog world of our parents, as an ordinary citizen and not under surveillance because of being a suspect of a crime, it was taken for granted that you could walk around a city without authorities tracking you at the footstep level. Our children don’t have this right anymore in their digital world.
In the midst of contemporary science’s stunning discoveries and innovations – for example, 2017 alone brought the editing of a human embryo’s genes, the location of an eighth continent under the ocean and the ability to reuse a spacecraft’s rocket boosters – it’s easy to forget that there’s an ongoing debate over science’s capacity to save humankind.
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Sputnik – 22.12.2017 Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Friday that NATO has doubled the number of its military drills since 2012 in the vicinity of Russia’s borders, adding that Moscow is scrutinizing the exercises. Speaking at the final meeting of the Defense Ministry’s board, Sergei Shoigu said that the US missile defense system […]
RT | December 22, 2017 Washington’s new national security strategy is “aggressive,” Russian President Vladimir Putin has said, adding that Moscow will take the US stance into consideration. Both the US and NATO have been “accelerating build-up of infrastructure in Europe,” the Russian leader said Friday. Referring to the “defense strategy recently put out” by […]
By M K Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline | December 23, 2017 It is reasonable to surmise that the Indian decision to vote in the UN General Assembly on Thursday against the US president Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel would only have been taken at the level of Prime Minister Narendra […]
Robin Williams taught us that despite our own suffering, the voice that speaks for Love can never be extinguished. Does not everything – the quality of our own lives and the quality of our relationships – depend on which voice we listen to moment by moment?
By Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge | December 21, 2017 Kazakhstan may have the world’s best potassium, but as of today it also has a very big problem, or rather 22.6 billion problems. Overnight, Bank of New York Mellon said it had frozen $22.6 billion in assets held by Kazakhstan’s National Oil Fund in a […]
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Stephen Lendman Explains that even US Vassals Gave Trump the Finger on Jerusalem
http://stephenlendman.org/2017/12/un-jerusalem-vote-postmortems/
Arms crossed, like he is pouting. Thinks being rich puts him above the (in this case, international) law. Pathetic. Here are the results of the vote:
The Trump administration suffered a humiliating defeat in the UN General Assembly Thursday as 128 countries condemned the president’s December 6 announcement recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The 128-9 vote, with 35 abstentions, reflects the extreme isolation of the United States and increases the prospect of a violent clash in the Middle East. The vote was preceded by[Read More...]
To have a viable human future on this overstressed planet, it is essential that we build a solidarity economy that seeks material sufficiency and spiritual abundance for all in balance with a living Earth. We must join in common cause to build local relationships of caring and equitable sharing across the lines of race, religion, and class. Strong and healthy[Read More...]
Jonathan Jackson “How I became Orthodox” Holywood actor, recipient of five Emmy Awards, at an interview given in “Pemptousia” during his recent visit to the Monastery of Vatopedi – Mount
Episode One of FEE’s new video series “How We Thrive” (for more on the series, see below) explores one of the world’s leading banjo manufacturing companies. Gold Tone Music Group was started by Robyn and Wayne Rogers, after many years of owning a music store in a small beachtown in Florida. Follow Robyn’s journey from owning a 1970s music store to entering the world of instrument manufacturing and pioneering the movement for affordable banjos and imaginative folk acoustic instruments.
By Thomas L. Knapp | Garrison Center for Libertarian Advocacy | December 21, 2017 Ahead of a vote in the United Nations’ General Assembly on a resolution condemning US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, president Donald Trump and UN ambassador Nikki Haley threatened states voting for the resolution with the loss of US financial […]
Egypt is the Arab world’s most populous country, with 96 million inhabitants, which is expected to reach 119 million in 2030. Egypt is mostly uninhabitable desert, so people are concentrated near the Nile. Many Egyptians view children as caretakers for their parents in old age. Poor families view children as sources of income. The standard of living is declining, and the government is promoting the slogan "two is enough." [...]
Vice President Mike Pence made a surprise visit to Bagram air base in Afghanistan, reassuring the assembled troops that they are winning the war there, despite evidence to the contrary. For the occasion he donned a spiffy-looking leather military flight jacket, customized for him, as have other presidents and VPs going back at least as far as Ronald Reagan.
The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly to condemn President Trump's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and called on the US to withdraw the decision. The vote was 128 countries rebuking Trump, with 35 countries abstaining, and only nine countries, including Israel and the US, voting in favor of the new capital. Nikki Haley, US ambassador to the UN, said she would note which countries opposed Israel and the US. Trump threatened to cut off US foreign-aid to those countries.
The Department of Education announced that all 5- to 16-year-old students will be required to take sex-ed classes that are "sensitive" to all sexualities and identities. Critics say that children are too young to understand adult sexual relationships such as homosexuality and transgenderism, so the "appropriate" understanding will be taught based on the social and ethical standards of government employees, including those who are gay and transgender. Input is invited from parents, but opposing views are not welcome.
Lexington, Virginia recently updated their zoning ordinance to include restrictions on short-term rentals, including Airbnbs. By capping total rental nights and threatening business license revocation on the basis of neighbor complaints, Lexington fails to recognize the potential negative impact this action will have on the city’s small economy.
[A shorter version of this article was published in The Wire on 18 December. I thank K. Satyanarayana, P. Sanal Mohan and Jangam Chinnaiah for their very helpful comments on it, which have helped me to clarify and elaborate on certain points.] The rise of Jignesh Mevani constitutes a significant landmark in the political configuration in … Continue reading The Meaning of Jignesh Mevani
US deaths from drug overdoses skyrocketed 21% last year, and for the second straight year dragged down American life expectancy. The government figures put drug deaths at 63,600, up from about 52,000 in 2015. For the first time, the powerful painkiller Fentanyl, and its close opioid cousins, played a bigger role in the deaths than any other legal or illegal drug, surpassing prescription pain pills and heroin. The highest drug death rates were in ages 25 to 54.
By Yves Engler · December 21, 2017 Drain the swamp’ was a popular Donald Trump campaign slogan that referred to reducing the influence of Washington lobbyists. While the three words reflect an extreme lack of ecological consciousness — wetlands need to be protected and recreated, not destroyed — the image of politicians slogging their way through […]
Judge Gloria Navarro declared a mistrial (instead of dismissing charges) in the Bundy Ranch case saying US prosecutors willfully withheld critical evidence from the defense. Prosecutors maintained the FBI was not involved in the standoff and that no video surveillance or sniper teams were used. They charged defendants with making false claims about snipers and videos in order to incite militia groups to their defense. All of Bundy's claims were true, and the government was lying. Judge Navarro will decide if all charges will be dismissed at a hearing on Jan. 8.
By Neela Banerjee / Inside Climate News.
One of the longest and most consequential campaigns against science in modern history is becoming more extreme—and turning against its originators.
Trump has made passing tax reform a major goal of his first year in office. And in a final 224-201 Wednesday vote, the House sent the bill to President Donald Trump’s desk for his signature. The final tax reform bill maintains the current number of brackets, seven, but lowers the rates to 10, 12, 22, 24, 32, 35, and 37 percent.
This whole PPP Twitter thread on recent polling is interesting for folks who enjoy following elections on a congressional level. In almost every case they polled Republican incumbents against "generic Democrats," in other words, whomever wins the primary.